Pad for horseshoes.



. 'PATENTED JAN. 8, 19.01.

-A.'F. MARTINS.

PAD FOR HORSESHOBS.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 30.1905.

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PAD FOR HORSESHOBS.

' APPLICATION FILED DEO. 30,1905.

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UNITE STA E SPATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED F. MARTINS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF TVVO-FIFIHS TO ANDRE PALUEL DE MARMON, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

PAD FOR HORSESHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 8, 1907.

Application filed December 30,1905. Serial 110.293.9153.

annexed drawings, in which Figure l is a top view of a horseshoe with this invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a section along 00 as, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an under Flew of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section along y y,

In this construction the treads or cushion b are permanently connected to the attaching portions or risers c, which have flange or lip portions d. The right and left hand screw 9 has a capstan part 9 for engagement by a wrench and is turned to spread or con- The screw engages tapped parts h, permanently pivoted at i to the parts 0. When the screw has spread the parts so that flanges (1 come between the shoe a, Fig. 4, and the foot of the horse, the pads or cushions b are held in place. The pads can be removed by turning the screw the other way. Rubber finger disks or grips k can be provided to turn the screw, and jam or look nuts are shown at m. These disks lc act as cushions. They prevent the screw from being bent. These cushion-disks bend or yield when the horse steps on a stone or hard substance or uneven surface. These cushions k can touch or rest directly against the foot, but not necessarily so. The flange or rather riser portions 0 are perforated to allow the screw projecting through the hinged or tapped parts 7b to pass through the risers and make adjustment possible within considerable limits. The hinged pieces act as clamps and when expanded by the screw press the risers against the inner edge of the shoe.

The pad can be applied to a smooth shoe or to one with calks or to any construction of shoe.

Rivets n can be used to connect the pad to the risers or to lower horizontal part thereof. This lower extension of riser c, as seen in Fig. 4, passes a certain extent into the pad or between parts of the same, and the rivets or fastenings n connect the pad I) and metal .part or riser c; or, if desired, the pad I), of rubber, can be vulcanized directly to the metal of riser c.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A pad for horseshoes comprising a pair of soft treads, a metal riser with flange permanently secured to each tread, and a screw for spreading the flange to engage the top of a shoe.

2. A pad for horseshoes comprising tread portions, a riser embodying two members each provided with a flange, and a screw, said riser being perforated for the passage therethrougli of the screw to allow adjustment of the pad.

3. A pad for a horseshoe comprising tread portions with a riser embodying two members each provided with a flange, a transversely-extending adjusting-screw, and a tapped or screw-engaging piece hinged to the riser, the latter being perforated to allow the screw to extend from the hinge-piece through the riser.

4. A pad or the like for horseshoes comprising tread portions, and a transverselyextending adjusting-screw, said screw being provided with cushion-disks.

5. A pad or the like for a horseshoe comprising a tread, clamps for the tread, and a transversely-extending actuating-screw, said screw being provided with cushion disks which rest against or touch the foot and prevent the screw from bending.

6. A horseshoe attachment comprising screw-actuated clamp or hinged pieces, and pads or the like having risers pressed by the screw and clamps against the inner edge of the shoe.

7. A pad for horseshoes comprising a tread formed of a plurality of members, a riser for each of said. members, a screw-threaded clamp hinged to each of the risers, and an ac tuating-screw for the hinged clamps.

8. A pad for horseshoes comprising a tread formed of a plurality of members, a riser for each of said members, a screw-threaded clamp hinged to each of the risers, and an actuating-screw for the hinged clamps, said screw provided with a pair of cushion-disks.

9. A pad for horseshoes comprising a tread formed of two members, a plurality of risers straddling the shoe and connected to said the clamps, and cushion disks upon said 1o members, a screw-threaded clamp hinged to screw.

the risers, and an actuating-screw for the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set clamps. my hand in the presence of two subscribing 10. A pad for horseshoes comprising a witnesses.

tread formed of two members, a plurality of ALFRED F. MARTINS.

risers straddling the shoe and connected to Witnesses:

said members,- a screwthreaded clamp GEORGE HULSBERG,

hinged to the risers, an actuating-screw for EDWARD WIEsNER. 

